Blue Light Card. Individually great, together unstoppable.

The role and team

We are on the lookout for a Commercial Finance Business Partner to join us at Blue Light Card Australia, to partner closely with senior stakeholders and own the financial planning and performance cycles, to enhance commercial outcomes for the business.

At Blue Light Card Australia, we’re on a mission to say "thank you" to our frontline workers and volunteers, by helping them save on the things they love, through exclusive discounts and perks. Established in the UK in 2008, Blue Light Card launched in Australia in 2022. We’re a fast-paced, ambitious start-up (supported by our established UK entity), committed to delivering something extraordinary to our members, and we need passionate people to help us get there!

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to our company's growth, through in-depth evaluation of our revenue streams and cost base to help us deliver more value to our members. If you’re proactive, innovative, and excited to work for a company that truly makes an impact, we’d love to hear from you!

What you’ll do

• Play a key role in budgets, reforecasts and long-range plans, supporting senior stakeholders to ensure the right balance of ambition and achievability, and aligning to top-down guidance

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, business partner with Marketing and Sales teams to help them understand opportunity and risk in their areas, and align financial plans and operational choices with strategic objectives

• Develop, and deliver robust, end-to-end business cases for revenue-driving initiatives spanning across marketing campaigns, promotional offers, and product/tech initiatives, championing these initiatives all the way from initial concept to tangible business impact

• Transform complex datasets, emerging consumer trends, and financial models into decisive, easy-to-understand, and actionable commercial recommendations that the team can execute with confidence

• Monitor performance, analyse variances, and prepare reports for internal and external stakeholders, providing them with the analysis they need to optimise our member offering and drive more value for members and partners.

• Perform market analysis and benchmarking to provide context around our member behaviour and financial performance

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience as an FP&A Analyst, Commercial Analyst or Commercial Finance Business Partner, with a deep understanding of financial forecasting and techniques, ideally in a fast-paced consumer tech, digital, or subscription-based business

• Excellent commercial acumen and an understanding of consumer behaviours, with the ability to translate financial data into commercial insights and recommendations

• Developed interpersonal skills and a track record of building strong business partnering relationships with senior management

• Strong analytical capability – comfortable working with large datasets and partnering with data teams to extract the right information for both financial and commercial analysis

• Advanced Excel and data manipulation skills with exposure to BI tools (e.g. Power BI, Lightdash, Datarails, Looker, etc.). Working experience with SQL is desirable

• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex financial concepts clearly and succinctly to non-finance business partners

• Flexibility to join calls/meetings with the UK team outside of regular business hours

Our culture

At Blue Light Card, our members are at the heart of everything we do, and it’s our incredible team that make it all possible. We’re all about creating a workplace where people genuinely love what they do, and where talented individuals are excited to join.

We’re a tight-knit team motivated by shared values and a collective mission to support the people who keep our communities safe. We work hard, support each other, and always make room for a bit of fun along the way! Our Sydney office, is in the heart of the CBD (near Townhall), is where ideas flow, snacks are plentiful, and teamwork thrives.

In the UK, we’re the leading discounts marketplace for the blue light community, partnering with over 15,000 brands to deliver exclusive savings. We’ve brought that same game-changing offering to Australia, supporting health professionals, law enforcement, emergency services, and teachers. Together, we’re building something amazing for our everyday heroes.

What we offer

• Hybrid working and flexible hours

• 24 days of annual leave plus your birthday off

• A company bonus scheme

• $1,000 annual contribution towards private health insurance

• $500 annual personal development growth fund

• Paid parental leave

• Casual dress code and modern office space (quiet meeting rooms, coffee, fully stocked kitchen)

• Employee assistance programme (including mental health support)

• Your very own Blue Light Card for the work you do supporting front line workers

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